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Why the long history of calculating pi will never be completed

Building the full value of pi has been a project thousands of years in the making, but just how much of this infinite number do we actually need, asks our maths columnist Jacob Aron

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How breaking the rules of tic-tac-toe makes it way more fun

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We are all bad at choosing random numbers in our own unique way

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Barcodes: How they could be your latest mathematical party trick

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The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changing physics today

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Maths quirk explains why crosswords are so hard – until they aren't

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How a typo spoiled my proof of Fermat’s last theorem

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This mathematical trick lets you work out the weekday of any date

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Mathematicians found – and fixed – an error in a 60-year-old proof

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Mathematicians spent 2024 unravelling proof almost no one understands

The geometric Langlands conjecture poses deep questions for mathematicians, and a 1000-page proof published this year has left them both celebrating and puzzled

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The surprising maths that explains why coincidences are so common

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Mathematicians have discovered a mind-blowing new kind of infinity

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AI maths assistant could help solve problems that humans are stuck on

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What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose

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